Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usTue, 19 Mar 2013 20:10:19 +0000Pinterest lets you find your Twitter pals nowhttp://www.dailydot.com/culture/pinterest-find-friends-twitter-facebook/<p><img src='http://cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/f8/d2/f8d20b8d8121e1ee28ba95c97775cd20.jpg'></p><p>
Here&#39;s one notable feature of Pinterest&#39;s redesign: the ability to find your Twitter pals who are also pinning.</p>
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As noted by <a href="http://bluechoochoo.tumblr.com/post/45745474643/pinterest-redesign-new-look-twitter-agencies-social-grap">Andr&eacute;a Lopez</a>, an independent marketer who keeps close tabs on Pinterest, to be able to find your Twitter friends without having to be super-annoying and ask them individually for a link to their profile, you&#39;ll need to update to the new-look Pinterest. You can do that from the banner that should appear at the top of your Pinterest home page.&nbsp;</p>
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The new Pinterest is pretty, with <a href="http://blog.pinterest.com/post/45669182372/our-new-look-more-ways-to-discover-what-you-love">bigger pins</a> and a couple of swish discovery tools like seeing other pins from people who pinned a certain item.</p>
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The Twitter friend finder is perhaps the most useful discovery tool of the lot (maybe save for the Facebook friend finder, which is still around), since it&#39;s more about people than things. As Lopez notes, it means &quot;not having to rebuild your community from scratch,&quot; which is great, because that can be very time-consuming and bothersome.</p>
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Lopez told the Daily Dot that when you signed up for a Pinterest account, you were asked if you want to follow your Twitter friends (Indeed, signing up for an account using Twitter now gives the option to &quot;follow recommended friends&quot;). However, that was your only real option for doing so until now.</p>
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Pinterest does occasionally send emails when your Twitter contacts join. &quot;Every once in a while, a lil box would appear in the upper left-hand corner showing three twitter randos you could follow,&quot; Lopez said, and even then there was no indication that these people were from Twitter.&nbsp;</p>
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The updated tool is clearer and transparent.</p>
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Here&#39;s what the find friends page looks like in the current/old version of Pinterest:</p>
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<a href="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/3/19/pinterest1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/3/19/pinterest1.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 252px;" /></a></p>
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After updating to the new design:</p>
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<a href="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/3/19/pinterest2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/3/19/pinterest2.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 209px;" /></a></p>
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On the flip side, finding your Gmail, Yahoo, and email contacts doesn&#39;t seem to be an option anymore. Can&#39;t have it all, I guess.</p>
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In the last year, Twitter&#39;s blocked <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/instagram-twitter-api-access/">Instagram</a> and <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/twitter-tumblr-api-find-friends-disconnect/">Tumblr</a> from having access to its social graph as it exerts <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/twitter-client-app-changes-api/">more control over its ecosystem</a>. The social graph is, on one level, the web of connections between users that shows which of your followers/followees have connected to various other services. With that in mind, it remains to be seen whether the Pinterest friend finder will remain.</p>
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In December, Pinterest toyed with <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/business/pinterest-previews-twitter-instagram/">supporting Twitter Cards</a> (a.k.a. expanded tweets), where you could see a preview of a pin on Twitter without having to click through. That support turned out to just be a test, and it was <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-twitter-cards-expanded-tweets-test/">pulled after a few days</a>.</p>
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We&#39;ve reached out to Pinterest for comment, though it seems like it and Twitter may be besties, pinning and tweeting together at least for now.</p>
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<em>Photo via </em><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/236368680413328484/"><em>Elizabeth Weil</em></a><em>/Pinterest</em></p>
kris@dailydot.com (Kris Holt)Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:10:19 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/culture/pinterest-find-friends-twitter-facebook/Culture